The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

The comforter's head never aches.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.